Railway-car construction



. J. HOSCEIT.

RAILWAY CAR CONSTRUCTIO APPLlcAlQN FILED Aue.21, 1920.

Patented pxx 4, 1922 w56? Ty/gm UNITED STATES'IPATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM HSCEIT.` F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO NATIONAL DUMP CAR coli/IPANY,A or CHICAGO,v ILLINOIS,

A c oRPoR-ATION oF MAINE.

RAILWAY-CAR CONSTRUCTION.r

Application aiedaugust 21,Y 1920.

T o ZZ Viff/10m. il? may concern.

Be it known that l, Tillman J. Hoscnrr. a citizen of the United States. residing at Chicago. in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented ceitain new and uset'ul Improvements in Railway-Car oiistructions, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to railway ear construction. and more particularly to arailway car vfloor construction.

lt is common practice to unload cars by use ot clam-shell buckets.A this being true even when cars are yprovided with floor clump doors. it being appreciated that it is not always desirable to dump the lading ot cars in certain spots. It has been tound that these clamshell `buckets in closing. while taking a load. sometimes. Fand notI infrequently. O'rip the Cover plaites over the intermediate cross sills and ce1/iter sills' and distortlor tear saine away from their proper places. .i

The object of this invention is to prevent this objectionable yioccurrentxi, and to pro vide simple and etlicient means adjacent said cover plates to guide the gripping points or edges of sucli buckets in a manner to clear the cover pla-tes.

.This and other objects are accoinl'ilished by means of the.arr'uigciiieiit'disclosed on the accompanying sheet ot' drawing, in which* Figure '1 is a transversesectional view ot' a railway car including a Hoor structure enibodyiiig my invention;

liiguj'e 2 is a top plan view ot' a railway cai' lloor dump dooi' eiiibodyiilg my inveii" tion;

Figure. 35 is ay sectional view' ofthe saine door taken in the plane of line 3 3 of Figure 2; and.

l"igure -t is a. detail sectional view of tlie loor structure. including a cross sill. cover plato tliei'eover, and the door. eiiibodyiiig my invention. to prevent gripping of tlie cover plato. the. parts being shown on an enlarged scale.. The various novel features of my invention will lie apparent from the t'ollowing description and drawings and will lie particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the figures of the drawings,

i it will be noted that I have disclosed my inspecification of Letter mirent.

y Patented Apr. 4., 1922.

Serial No. 405,024.

vention in connection with a dlinip car, including a body having sides and ends 11 carried by an underfranie including cross sills 12 and a center sill 13. As is customary, the cross sills and center sills are covered lri '.cover plates 11 and 15. respectively. which cooperate with dump ldoors 16 preterably pivotally mounted at their inner ends 17 to the center sill structure and swungr downwardly and inwardly for dumping purposes. lVlicn in closed position the edges of the doois underlie the-cover plates 11 and 15.

As mentioned hereinabove. when unload ing the. car by means of claiii-shell buckets. it sometimes happens that the gripping edges of the bucket as it is being closed in taking a load. grip the cover plates and either distort saine or tear them partially or wholly away t'roin their proper positions. To prevent this occurrence, l have provided means adjacent said cover plates for preventing a gripping member passing into engagement with said cover plates. ln this particular inst-ance. wherein the floor includes dump doors 16. l have provided the dump doors with upwardlyextending ribs or eorruga.- tions 18 and 19 ,adjacent the cover plates 1t over the cross sills and cover plates over the center sills, respectively` said ribs or corrugations extending lengthwise along said' cover plates and being so positioned with respect thereto that any gripping engagement that said buckets might have had on the cover plates is entirely prevented. 'lhcse ribs act as guide means operative upon the gripping points or edges ot' such buckets,

positively directing the latter away from Y.

said cover plates. thereby preventing said cover plates from being torn troni their p0 sitioiis or ever.

It is my intention to cover all modifica.- iions ot the invention falling within the spirit and scope of the following claims.

l claim: 1 i

1. ln a railway car. a floor portion .ilicluding a cover plate, and means adjacent said cover plate for positively directing a. gripping member away Jroin gripping engagement therewith.

2. ln a. railway car. a Hoor portion ineluding a cover plate. and means eatending lengthwise along the edges of said. coyer plate for positively directing a gripping l f t therewith.

3. In a. railway car, a Hoor po in including cover plate, and a. door doo asso-- "ig grlpping member away from gripping engagement therewith.

(dated therewith and havingv means for posi* tively directing a! gripping lmember` away from gripping engagement 'v'withs'aid cover' pi ate.

4. In a railway cer, ythe 'cxnbinaton of @roes sills and a center sill7 coverpiates over .said sills, and :i floor door h :iving upwardly projecting ribsarranged adjacent the .edges 'of said cover plates for positively directing Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 18th -day of lAugust, 1920..

,i WILLIAMy J. HOSCEIT. 

